Lowering The Floor Level

We re looking at a possible project that would require lowering a living room floor.

Lowering the floor level.

If an engineer found no structural issues you may be able to level the floor by applying a cement based self leveling floor product such as henry level. Currently have a 1960 s era brick fireplace with a raised slate hearth 16 wide by 20 high. I am planning on installing a jotul f3 and would like to removed the raised hearth which is only 16 wide and also lower the inner hearth to floor level. Currently the raised hearth sits approx 20 off our hardwood floor.

Is this the best way to lower the conservatory floor. And bench footing is one of the widely used methods for it. In order to create an additional space in homes people are resorting to the option of lowering the basement. Bench footing is a process.

We want to do a barrier free shower as part of a bathroom remodel at our project house so we need to lower the floor framing in that room to provide the depth necessary for the tile installer to establish a sloped mud job leading to the drain. It s currently raised two 5 1 2 risers 11 inches from the floor elevations of the rest of the house. Mar 10 2010 2 yeah its the best way that or bring the kitchen floor up but depends on what height you ve got to play with etc just make sure your out the day the kango the floor up d. Lowering a concrete floor to make more headroom hi we are thinking of buying an old cottage mid 1800 s with very low headroom in two downstairs rooms due to original exposed wooden beams.

To accommodate me i m 6 4 there would need to be about another foot 18inch of headroom. Lower it to same level. Hardwood floor installers often use the term level when referring to subfloors when actually they are meaning the term flat. We ve never done this before and my initial thought is that it looks too easy.